README.md

em-rspec

em-rspec is a very simple patch to RSpec 2 that sets up and tears down an EventMachine reactor loop, and runs each example within the context of the loop.
It also will wrap each example in a Fiber so you are free to untangle nested callbacks.

Usage

gem install em-rspec

require 'em-rspec'

em-rspec extends RSpec in an unobtrusive way that requires no addtional code in your specs to test EM code. e.g.

describe 'em-rspec' do
it 'executes specs within a reactor loop' do
EM.reactor_running?.should be_true # This is true
end
end

How it works

As mentioned before, before the spec is run, a reactor loop is setup, and a callback to teardown the loop when your example finishes execution is created.
This is an important point to consider because if you do any asynchronous i/o operations, your code will not be tested, because your code will likely have
finished execution before the i/o operation is complete. It is an antipattern to actually hit the network in your tests and what you should do is mock out
i/o calls to return immediately, e.g. http calls with webmock.